I hope I didn’t give the impression that I was going to write a blog post every day. I’m going to write more frequent blog posts, but I’m not going to force myself to write one every day. I don’t want them to be forced, and I want them to have slightly more substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plan this morning was to get up, drive my car to Folsom and back, hole up in a Starbucks, and start the next chapter of The Psychic Out of Time<\/em>. My car needed the drive in order to charge the battery, and since I’m planning on going into the office next week, I need my car functional. Also, Melissa likes it when I drive her around. She’s enjoyed long rides since before we were married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, the car didn’t start. In fact, my clicker wouldn’t unlock the doors. And, I rediscovered that someone jammed something in the keyhole, so I couldn’t use my key to unlock the door. I couldn’t get inside, so I couldn’t pop the trunk and get access to the battery. Quite the conundrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If I were Mel Walker, it wouldn’t have been a problem. He knows his way around cars. He would have known exactly what to do to get the hood open. He knows how to get doors open when you don’t have the key. But I’m not Mel Walker, even if I write him in first person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fortunately, there’s enough Mel Walker in me that I was able to solve the problem with a little bit of instruction. I searched online and found a video showing someone opening a similar car as mine. With their model of Mustang, they could go through the grill with a stick to pop the release. With mine, I needed to slide on my back through mud beneath the front bumper, and then trigger the release with a screwdriver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One quick trip to the auto parts store later, and Melissa and I are sitting in a Starbucks after all. My car is functional with a new battery, and I have a new skill in my back pocket if I ever need to give Mel something to further prove aptitude as a novice mechanic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This morning, I woke up a little earlier than usual, with The Psychic Out of Time<\/em> on my mind. When I sat down to write Thursday, I was only going to poke around at the story for thirty minutes or so. I didn’t have a lot of confidence going into the writing session. I wrote for 90 minutes, and I finished the end of chapter one, which had been troubling me for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only reason I stopped writing was because I wasn’t sure how to start chapter 2. I know what is supposed to be in it, but that’s not the same as knowing how to continue. This morning, I woke up with an answer in mind. So I can keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m genuinely happy with how this story is going so far. I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to finish, and there’s still some stuff in the middle and towards the end which are foggy to me, but my confidence in producing a good<\/em> sequel novel is high right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon, I’m going to write a post about the importance of audience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope I didn’t give the impression that I was going to write a blog post every day. I’m going to write more frequent blog posts, but I’m not going to force myself to write one every day. I don’t want them to be forced, and I want them to have slightly more substance. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63613,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63612\/revisions\/63613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}